In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.

In “The Fire,” the reporter Cecilia Sala travels to Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan and follows her generation into the fray.

Atwood’s memoir Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts was published on November 4, 2025, quickly becoming a New York Times ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

It is no surprise that demand and interest for the memoir written by JD Vance, the newly-minted Republican nominee for vice president is jumping. For the Columbus Metropolitan Library, they were able ...

An old friend from college is part of a family that until recently owned a very large retail operation with stores throughout the Midwest. A few years ago the family sold the business for a price that ...

Slate is launching a new monthly book review that will take over its home page the first weekend of every month. In other words, there’s not exactly a dearth of book coverage available online, though ...

Before the internet made book reviews widely accessible, where would curious minds go to find information about a new novel's subject matter or a plot? If you lived in the Los Angeles area, you could ...

First published in 1979, the most recent edition covers the present-day political, economic and cultural challenges.